From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6b777a2e4fd60559 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: llothar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Only one Ada vendor? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:33:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1193304827.381503.30670@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> References: <1192806306.892546.73350@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.123.134.235 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1193304827 25965 127.0.0.1 (25 Oct 2007 09:33:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:33:47 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1192806306.892546.73350@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=222.123.134.235; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2561 Date: 2007-10-25T02:33:47-07:00 List-Id: > without buying licenses. If Apex and ClearCase were marketed with an > open-source, support focused business model (instead of a license fee > focused business model) I'm convinced they would have a lot more > success in the market. I don't believe. Way to many people think that all can be payed by support but this is simply not the truth. Especially for a development environment i can't really see any successfull business model - and i don't see to much of it (Elicpse is a total different beast) all others pay for an IDE/compiler.